7 Ups And 9 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 1)

2. Complicating A Really Simple Storyline

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WWE has done everything in its power to turn the Raw Women’s Championship match from a simple, strong rivalry into a convoluted storyline that has more twists in it than Lombard Street in San Francisco.

The latest turn came Monday when Stephanie McMahon announced that Charlotte Flair’s newly won SmackDown Women’s Championship would also be on the line in the main event triple threat, making it a winner takes all double title match.

So now, someone will presumably walk out of WrestleMania with both women’s titles rather than a straightforward fight over Ronda Rousey’s title. Worse, Becky Lynch, the supposed hero and underdog in this match, now has literally everything to gain and nothing to lose. She doesn’t have a title on the line, but could win both by pinning or submitting one woman.

How does that make the underdog babyface again?

WWE’s writers are literally the worst. THE WORST.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.